SCC Simplify | Episode 15 | Getting under the hood with IBM Hashicorp - Part 1

A customer expected to find around 250 exposed secrets in their environment. The scan found more than 168,000. In this episode of SCC Simplify, Craig Kilborn, Head of the CTO Office at SCC, is joined by Richard Bennett, EMEA Field CTO at IBM HashiCorp. They discuss why the best technology conversations start with listening, not products. They cover security observability in the age of agentic AI, rising multi-cloud costs, and development environments left running years after anyone needs them. They also discuss Lego Serious Play, a workshop method that takes meetings from "20% of people talking 80% of the time" to everyone having a voice. What you'll learn: ✅ Why observability matters as much as defences when threats move at machine speed ✅ How HashiCorp Vault and Radar help organisations "know what they don't know" ✅ Why many organisations are rethinking multi-cloud, and why not every environment needs to be a Ferrari ✅ How Lego Serious Play brings out the challenges that really matter Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:16 Meet Richard Bennett, EMEA Field CTO, HashiCorp 01:07 Lego Serious Play and why listening comes first 02:25 What a typical field CTO engagement looks like 04:18 Optimise cost, evolve services, anchored by security 06:01 "Shadow IT is just feedback" 06:54 Why security can't be the "Department of No" 07:36 From firewalls to observability in the age of agentic AI 09:09 Vault and Radar: 250 secrets expected, 168,000 found 10:27 Leading with insight, not ambulance chasing 12:06 How Lego Serious Play works 14:58 What a Lego session with schoolchildren revealed 17:12 From vendor to trusted advisor 18:17 Getting business and technology leaders in the same room 19:56 Ferrari or Fiesta? Cost, self-service and taking environments down 22:57 "Cloud is not a place. It's a methodology." 23:26 Credibility, capability, confidence 24:44 Wrap-up 🔗 Find out more about how SCC can help: https://www.scc.com/ 🎧 More SCC Simplify episodes: https://www.scc.com/insights/resource... #SCCSimplify #CyberSecurity #IBM